pl. [L. strigēs (Vitruv.), synon. with striæ, strigæ: if the word be not a misreading, the sing. would normally be strix.] The channels of a fluted column.
1563. Shute, Archit., D iij b. If this piller be garnished and filled with Canaliculi, and Striges.
1664. Evelyn, trans. Freart’s Parallel Archit., etc. 130. To the … Shafts of some Columns appertain Striges, which … are those excavated Channells, by our Workmen call’d Flutings.
1789. P. Smyth, trans. Aldrich’s Archit., I. iii. 13. Those channellings in the shaft of the column, which are called by the several names of Striæ, Striges, or … Strigiles.
1842. Gwilt, Archit., Gloss. 1038.
